Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (born August 9, 1927, Brooklyn, United States; died 2014), was an American author. Keyes is best remembered for Flowers for Algernon. Keyes's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Author Emeritus.
Daniel Keyes’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Keyes’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Daniel in the U.S.?
#22
US rank in 2025
~1,991,091
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1927, Daniel came 46th among boys and 1,368th among girls, carried by 4,615 American boys and 35 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Daniel apart
What keeps Daniel Keyes in print: Flowers for Algernon.
The classrooms behind this chart: Brooklyn College and Thomas Jefferson High School.
The working life starts in 1952, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as pneumonia; the grave is at Eternal Light Memorial Gardens.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Daniel Keyes: American psychological fiction writers, EC Comics and Novelists from Ohio.
The same date carries Robert Shaw. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Flowers for Algernon
- Educated at
- Brooklyn College, Thomas Jefferson High School and New York University
- Awards
- Nebula Award for Best Novel (1967) and Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1960)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Working from
- 1952
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Eternal Light Memorial Gardens
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 44
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Daniel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Daniel wants to be loved
Daniel wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Daniel and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Daniel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Daniel is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Daniel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Daniel's birth date. Working below.
Where Daniel sits
Six lines
Daniel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Daniel Keyes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Rastaban, in Draco, 78.0° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
The Moon, 88% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Boca Raton, Palm Beach County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Keyes: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
3 unaspected planets · Grand trine · No Air planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Daniel Keyes's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Daniel Keyes was born on August 9, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Daniel Keyes's birth date, August 9, 1927, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Keyes' date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Daniel Keyes combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Daniel’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.0° to 2.1° orb
Daniel’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.0° orb
Daniel’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.7° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.7° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 6°06′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 22°24′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 19°22′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.5°
- Ceres square Mars 1.8°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Daniel’s chart
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
Born the same day as Daniel
Robert Shaw was born on August 9, 1927 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above Brooklyn stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Daniel’s cards
Computed from August 9, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185714 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Daniel Keyes at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Daniel Keyes.
Quick answers about Daniel Keyes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Daniel Keyes?
- Daniel Keyes was a Leo: born August 9, 1927, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Daniel Keyes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1927 birth.
- What was Daniel Keyes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Daniel Keyes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Daniel Keyes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Daniel Keyes's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
